Video Games Knowledge Quiz - Season 9 - Pirez

[The Jonster]

So basically, you do what I do most of the time in rpgs and just grind til I'm op

[Giant Chicken]

I actually did a randomized Soullink with someone once, where I would catch 6 legendaries... and caused around 80% of the deaths.

[Master]

Edges answer was satisfactory enough that I'll give him the point, I don't think it was YouTubers who came up with the idea, I'm going off Bulbapedia:
https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki ... _Challenge

Scoreboard
Pirez - 7 points
ithasmore - 3 points
Raygamer99 - 2 points
dr_st - 2 points
Reese Riverson - 2 points
EdgeRabbit - 2 points
DaveRattlehead - 1 point
Greengoop - 1 point
CosmicStrider - 1 point
Rsandee - 1 point

Eerieyuri - Bonus Point

QUESTION 23 - What were the first mainstream consoles to use the x86 architecture?

Bonus Question: Name all the creature archetypes in the Space Stage of Spore

[Greengoop]

PS2.

[Master]

Alas, I'm afraid that is incorrect.

[dr_st]

QUESTION 23 - What were the first mainstream consoles to use the x86 architecture?

Xbox.

[Pirez]

I thought the origin was from a webcomic, and it was a Nuzleaf?

Ooh boy, this takes me back.

As for the actual question, I'll try Xbox 360, being a Microsoft staple, but I feel that dr_st has the correct answer.

[Master]

Truth be told, I completely forgot about the original Xbox and was thinking of the Xbox One & PS4. But the original Xbox is indeed correct, turns out the 360 is the only Xbox console with the honour of not having an x86 processor. The original Xbox's processor was based on the Intel Pentium III.

Point to dr_st!

Scoreboard
Pirez - 7 points
ithasmore - 3 points
dr_st - 3 points
Raygamer99 - 2 points
Reese Riverson - 2 points
EdgeRabbit - 2 points
DaveRattlehead - 1 point
Greengoop - 1 point
CosmicStrider - 1 point
Rsandee - 1 point

Eerieyuri - Bonus Point

QUESTION 24 - There was a special way to transfer data between cartridges of Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooiee that wasn't implemented in the final game. What was it called and how was it going to work?

Bonus Question: Name all the creature archetypes in the Space Stage of Spore

[PluMGMK]

Funfact: the x86 architecture of the original Xbox made that the easiest non-PC version of Rayman 3 for me to reverse engineer to make the HoF decrypter

[Master]

Did you have to reverse engineer every version to be able to make the decryptor?

[PluMGMK]

Yep, because the encryption keys are different for the four platforms

[Master]

Ahhh, that must've been fun, looking at the different distinct architectures. Was the underlying code of Xbox's version rather similar to the PCs then?

[Reese Riverson]

Funfact: the x86 architecture of the original Xbox made that the easiest non-PC version of Rayman 3 for me to reverse engineer to make the HoF decrypter

I thought RPC was given the decrypter a good while back to use?

QUESTION 24 - There was a special way to transfer data between cartridges of Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooiee that wasn't implemented in the final game. What was it called and how was it going to work?

Oh boy, imagine if that method actually was kept.

Basically think of it as hot-swapping a harddrive, except it's the game cartridge, not a harddrive. Wasn't that like "stop 'n swop" or something? Which took advantage of the early flaws of the N64 that retained the RAM contents for like ten seconds if you kept the system on?

Ninty did not endorse hotswapping game cartridges, and honestly this was probably for the best. (Besides, why couldn't they just use the Controller Pak to like... you know... allow for data transfer of sort?)

[Pirez]

(Besides, why couldn't they just use the Controller Pak to like... you know... allow for data transfer of sort?)

My first guess would have been using the transfer pak alongside a dummy GB cartridge (preferably in the shape of a puzzle piece) to proceed to the transfer but it seems really intricate and I can't imagine a name for it.

[Reese Riverson]

My first guess would have been using the transfer pak alongside a dummy GB cartridge (preferably in the shape of a puzzle piece) to proceed to the transfer but it seems really intricate and I can't imagine a name for it.

A method like that would at least have worked more safely over hotswapping the game cartridges.

[Master]

Reese is correct, the Stop N Swop was a feature where you'd be able to unlock items in Banjo-Tooiee by having collected certain items in Banjo-Kazooie, and then swapping the cartridge within a 10 second period. As Reese says the idea is that data would be left in the RAM of the console during the swap, that could be read then by Banjo-Tooiee.

Of course, there's a few risks involved to pulling out a cartridge from a powered system...so yeah I can see why Nintendo was not so keen on the idea. But I like the idea as a concept, and of course we'd see other games sort of did pull this kind of trick by being able to read data in your memory card.

Scoreboard
Pirez - 7 points
ithasmore - 3 points
dr_st - 3 points
Reese Riverson - 3 points
Raygamer99 - 2 points
EdgeRabbit - 2 points
DaveRattlehead - 1 point
Greengoop - 1 point
CosmicStrider - 1 point
Rsandee - 1 point

Eerieyuri - Bonus Point

QUESTION 25 - In which Ratchet and Clank game is Ratchet's tail not visible during gameplay? And what in-universe explanation was given for the why?

Bonus Question: Name all the creature archetypes in the Space Stage of Spore

[Reese Riverson]

Oh that's easy, because it was one of my PS2 titles that I was like "Whaaa?" when I saw him with no tail. It's Ratchet and Clank: Deadlocked. I'm pretty sure it was simply due to his armor just doesn't accommodate his tail, leaving us a very hilarious dialog moment from Ratchet.

God I love the Ratchet and Clank series, the sense of humor is just priceless.

[Master]

Quite so:


Reese shoots up to 2nd place! But having answered 2 questions correctly, he must take a break.

Scoreboard
Pirez - 7 points
Reese Riverson - 4 points
ithasmore - 3 points
dr_st - 3 points
Raygamer99 - 2 points
EdgeRabbit - 2 points
DaveRattlehead - 1 point
Greengoop - 1 point
CosmicStrider - 1 point
Rsandee - 1 point

Eerieyuri - Bonus Point

QUESTION 26 - Listen to this portion of the N64 Rainbow Road theme (0:35 - 1:05 in the video below)


Name all the subsequent Rainbow Road tracks in the Mario Kart series whose themes quote that portion

Bonus Question: Name all the creature archetypes in the Space Stage of Spore

[Rsandee]

N64, NDS, GC, Wii, 3DS, WiiU/Switch

[Master]

Some correct, some incorrect I'm afraid.